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Speakers

Heather Downing

Employers on the program

  1. 2026Yugabyte5 talks
Events8
Conferences5
Talks91 keynote
Years active2019–2026
Miles between events25,5598 in-person events · 2 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360
  • Distributed SQL Summit
  • AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
  • MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
  • PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 9, 2026Distributed SQL Summit 2026Distributed SQL SummitspeakerUntitled
as YugabyteDB
Sep 30, 2026Postgres Summit US 2026PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)sponsored talkAgent Memory Is Three Postgres Extensions in a Trench Coat
as YugabyteDB

Ask a vendor what agent memory is and you get an architecture diagram with four databases on it. It can be one.

Jun 29, 2026AI Engineer World's Fair 2026AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)speakerAgent Memory Is a Solved Problem. Agent Learning Is Not.
as Yugabyte
Video
Jun 17, 2026Distributed SQL Summit Mumbai 2026Distributed SQL SummitspeakerAI Agents That Remember, Share, and Cost Less with Meko
as Yugabyte
Video
Jun 14, 2026MCP Dev Summit Mumbai 2026MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConspeakerWhat a Database Team Discovers Building an MCP Server
as YugabyteDB
Most MCP servers in production were built by AI teams. Meko's was built by a distributed SQL database team, and the view from this side of the stack is…Show less

Most MCP servers in production were built by AI teams. Meko's was built by a distributed SQL database team, and the view from this side of the stack is different. Coming from storage, some decisions were obvious from day one. Memory, knowledge, conversation history, and structured data belong on...

Mar 1, 2020Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2020Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360keynoteGeneral Session: The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers
Nov 17, 2019Live! 360 Orlando 2019 (incl. Visual Studio Live!)Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360panelistArtificial Intelligence Live! Panel Discussion: AI - For Data Scientists or Developers?
Mar 3, 2019Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2019Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360speakerGoogle vs Alexa: Battle of the Bots
Mar 3, 2019Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2019Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360speakerThe Visible Developer: Why You Shouldn't Blend In

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Leonard Lobel3—2020
Karthik Ranganathan212026
Andrew Brust212020
Vish Phaneendra2—2026
Billy Hollis2—2020
Brian A. Randell2—2020
Brock Allen2—2020
Eric D. Boyd2—2020
James McCaffrey2—2020
Jason Bock2—2020
Marcel de Vries2—2020
Philip Japikse2—2020
René van Osnabrugge2—2020
Rockford Lhotka2—2020
Ted Neward2—2020

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.